Brendan Gregg

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

Hardware virtualization for cloud computing has come a long way, improving performance using technologies such as VT-x, SR-IOV, VT-d, NVMe, and APICv. The latest AWS hypervisor, Nitro, uses everything to provide a new hardware-assisted hypervisor that is easy to use and has near bare-metal performance.

Virtualization 110

Virtualization AWS Hardware Storage 110

All Things Distributed

MARCH 7, 2013

By Werner Vogels on 07 March 2013 08:00 PM. This allows us to tune both our hardware and our software to ensure that the end-to-end service is both cost-efficient and highly performant. ve been working hard over the past year to improve storage density and bring down the costs of our underlying hardware platform.

Ecommerce 121

Ecommerce Storage Scalability Database 121

All Things Distributed

DECEMBER 12, 2018

In 2013, AWS launched the AWS Activate program to provide Nordic startups access to guidance and one-on-one time with AWS experts. Winning in this race requires that we become much more customer oriented, much more efficient in all of our operations, and at the same time shift our culture towards more lean and experimental.

AWS 119

AWS Cloud Games Serverless 119

Alex Russell

APRIL 29, 2021

Browser release notes and caniuse tables since Blink forked from WebKit in 2013 [7]. have been available in iOS since 2013 with iOS 7.0. Efficiently enables new styles of drawing content on the web , removing many hard tradeoffs between visual richness , accessibility, and performance. is access to hardware devices.

Media 145

Media Games Education Engineering 145

Smashing Magazine

DECEMBER 15, 2021

Mobile phones are rapidly becoming touchscreens and touchscreen phones are increasingly all-touch, with the largest possible display area and fewer and fewer hardware buttons. The hardware matters, but the underlying OS is the same , and pretty much all apps will run on any device of the same age.

Mobile 122

Mobile Design Internet Internet 122

Brendan Gregg

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

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Performance 103

Performance Latency Cache Virtualization 103

SQL Performance

MARCH 17, 2020

I will be using the 50GB Stack Overflow 2013 database , but any large table with a low number of distinct values would do. The Stack Overflow 2013 database comes without nonclustered indexes to minimize download time. This is very efficient, as confirmed by the elapsed time of 13ms (all of which is CPU time). Test Environment.

Servers 86

Servers Tuning Database Efficiency 86